[Rq-rules] *** JUNK MAIL ***Re: Deadliness

[Simon Phipp]

Wayne Shaw:
>>The thing is, even in RQ this wouldn't have happened (assuming the 
>>GM didn't cheat). A heavily armed and armored, relatively 
>>experienced, high-HP death knight taken out by one or two hits from 
>>a pitchfork wielded by a mere farmer? Even if the farmer 
>>criticalled, the death knight's hit points and CON should have 
>>allowed him to avoid instant death.
>
> Dunno about that.  A pitchfork is clearly an impaling weapon, and as 
> such can get some pretty nasty result.  I'd expect it to be at least 
> equivelent to a shortspear.  Assuming the former was a fairly strong 
> guy (not an unreasonable expectation with a farmer), you're talking 
> about a case where, depending on which version of the rules you were 
> talking, you were either doing 2d8+2+1d4 or 1d8+10+1d4.  It needed a 
> pretty robust target to count on not getting killed by that with no 
> armor relevant.

Even at 1D6, a big burly farmer would do 1D6+1D6, a maximum 12 on a critical, hit a vital location, knock him off his horse and he takes falling damage. Use Set Pitchfork and you get the charging horse's damage bonus instead.

In any case, if pitchforks weren't dangerous, the peasants wouldn't surround the vampire's castle with a pitchfork-wielding mob, would they?

It's funny to see an armoured knight laid low by a pitchfork-wielding bumpkin now and again.

See Ya

Simon
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